Bulgaria's capital celebrates Friday St. Sofia Day - the date when the Orthodox world pays homage to the Holy Martyrs Sofia and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Love. The September 17, 2010 events dedicated to the Day of Sofia will be opened with a parade starting at 11 am from the "Zaimov" park in downtown Sofia.

Rector of Sts Peter and Paul parish in Hong Kong Archpriest Dionisy Pozdnyayev believes the Orthodox Church can start adapting migrants in Russia. "There is so much talking about problems of immigration, about "attacking Islam", but why don't we establish a system of adapting migrants in Russia? It's evident that the country can't cope without workforce: migration is a normal process, we only need to control it and direct it," Fr. Dionisy told an Interfax-Religion correspondent on Wednesday.

Hundreds of Egyptian security forces, backed by a large number of cars and armoured vehicles, attacked the monastery of St Macarius of Alexandria in Wadi Rayan, Fayoum Province, 150 kilometres south of Cairo. The action began at 8 pm on 7 September, but news about it only filtered recently. About 300 agents took part in the assault, using tear gas, batons and stones against monks, three of whom were seriously wounded.

According to the AINA news agency, security forces prevented the delivery of limestone bricks for the construction of cells for the monks inside the ancient Monastery. They also tried to seize the bricks already delivered but the monks sat on them, refusing to move.

On Thursday, September 9, 2010, President of the Department of the external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who upon the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kyrril of Moscow and All Russia was in London and met with the head of the Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in his residence in Lambeth Palace.

On September 5, on the feast day of the Synaxis of the Moscos Saints, His Holiness Patriarch Theodor II of Alexandria and All Africa and His Holiness Patriarch Kyrril of Moscow and All Russia served the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral church of Christ the Saviour.